Everything has it's two sides and today is no different. Before going to bed last night, I called Trish and she officially had her first fever. She's notorious for not getting fevers when the nurses expect her to...but now she has complied with the norm and gotten a fever. She's still a little warm this morning, but feels like crap. She said she expects to stay in bed today, no walks, no nothing.
They took her for a CT scan of her head and chest this morning and they have unclogged her one Hickman lumen that was stuck last night. Even better news for visitors, she has been cleared of VRE and we no longer need to wear gowns and gloves to visit and better yet she doesn't have to wear them to walk around either.
I'd like to think days like today are the days she misses me the most. On days like today she sleeps and I work (usually from 9-9, as she sleeps). I feel bad, because I wonder if she even knows I am there. I do little things for her throughout the day and I think they do matter. I wish I was there today.
Today, I will take Andy to therapy and he'll have therapy on Friday again. Wednesday his stitches will come out and we'll visit the doctor. He is starting to feel better. He thinks he might be able to stop the pain meds in a day or two (we'll see how he feels after therapy).
The good news on Trish is that her counts continue to climb. The nurses say that you tend to feel like crap as your immune system comes back and we have seen that before after rounds of chemo in the past. Trish's white cells have reached 460 and drum roll please.......Her neutrophils have showed up (very early) and are at 130. They gave her platlets yeserday and as a result her platlet count is high (for her) at 119. Her red cell count is lower than normal but high for her at 27.4 -- You can follow the trend at "The Counts" link on the left column.
Stay tuned.
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